[Plugin] Markdown Plugin

My very first MODx plugin, totally ripped off Raymond’s Textile plugin.

Instructions to be found in the Read Me (included with the package).

Hurray for Markdown!

Nice job, it’s added to the repository.

This is probably more a post for the FlexiSearch snippet, but posting here for anyone considering using Markdown Plugin.

Because the page isn’t rendered when FlexiSearch searches the pages, it returns the Markdown codes when showing partial results.

Goto www.emanz.ac.nz and search for "delivers" (without quotes), notice all the #####, this is for <h5> tag, pretty ugly huh?

Also if you search for markdown, every page is returned becuase of the <markdown> </markdown> tags. Not sure how this can be fixed, and may post something in FlexiSearch thread, but its something to consider before changing an entire site to Markdown format, like I did :’(

(NB: this shouldn’t be an issue if you are searching full results only and not showing the relevant content in search results)

I think we just need a better search snippet for MODx.
Building a snippet&plugin that will spider its own site will be great.

Now there’s a thought, Wendy.

I wonder if something like Sphider could be integrated as a website search: http://www.cs.ioc.ee/~ando/sphider/

What do you think? I’ve only looked at it quickly but looks okay to me.

Cheers, Garry

That’s the same script that I’m looking at actually. lol

There goes the "Hyperactive League"... lol, you guys never cease to amaze me !
What if we did that... bam, done !

Enough teasing, I’d just love having a Sphider enhanced FlexSearchForm...

@Briggsy : hmmmm, I’d have to check that it does not do the same with Textile now...

Quote from: garryn at Feb 28, 2006, 04:32 PM

I wonder if something like Sphider could be integrated as a website search: http://www.cs.ioc.ee/~ando/sphider/

Nice... espically PDF and DOCs, I need that at the mo.

"Supports indexing of pdf and doc files"
"Respects robots.txt protocol."
"Possbility to exclude common words from being indexed."

You around Jared? What;s your ideas on the Flexisearch / Markdown issue?

Garry suggested that maybe flexsearch could include the markdown parser?